Berke Negri posted:

That the vilerat movie is not actually about the people who died but quasi-fictional American soldiers* who didn't do anything is pretty fitting.

Epic High Five posted:

If they thought it wasn't a lovely, forgettable movie they'd be releasing it in July

Berke Negri posted:

That the vilerat movie is not actually about the people who died but quasi-fictional American soldiers* who didn't do anything is pretty fitting.

Epic High Five posted:

If they thought it wasn't a lovely, forgettable movie they'd be releasing it in July

Mr Interweb posted:

Eh...that movie about the dude who bragged about shooting black people during Katrina was also released around this time and made bank. And we also had that new alien movie that came out two weeks ago which is doing pretty well too.

Berke Negri posted:

That the vilerat movie is not actually about the people who died but quasi-fictional American soldiers* who didn't do anything is pretty fitting.

DrProsek posted:

It's almost like a building needs something more to collapse.... something like, oh I don't know, a plane crashing into it at high speed. Something like THAT would probably gently caress up a building pretty good.

Do the Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams crowd just think that 9/11 was terrorists breaking into the WTC to strap barrels of jet fuel to the beams and igniting them or something? The giant plane crashing into the building seems like it would kinda affect things.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

say it right friend. they are mercs, sellswords, guns for hire, disposable soldiers for almighty dollar.

Berke Negri posted:

That the vilerat movie is not actually about the people who died but quasi-fictional American soldiers* who didn't do anything is pretty fitting.

Vienna Circlejerk posted:

If it doesn't feature any eve online footage i'm only giving it one star

Vienna Circlejerk posted:

If it doesn't feature any eve online footage i'm only giving it one star

Luigi Thirty posted:

Someone said they changed it to wow

Berke Negri posted:

That the vilerat movie is not actually about the people who died but quasi-fictional American soldiers* who didn't do anything is pretty fitting.

Rubio is not a Republican Obama. And that’s his problem posted:

In some cosmic way, Rubio must know that he probably owes his ascendance in national politics to Obama’s. Every party goes looking for its version of the latest model; just as George W. Bush seemed to be the boomer antidote to Bill Clinton, Rubio arrived on the scene just as Republicans were scrambling to find their own personification of youth and inclusivity.
But 2016 is turning out to be nothing like 2008, and Rubio’s candidacy isn’t really much like Obama’s. For one thing, Obama benefited from having the kind of clear foil, in Hillary Clinton, whom Rubio had hoped to face in a much smaller field — older, establishment-backed, shadowed by a sense of dynastic entitlement.
Obama was also fortunate in that he could tap into a powerful constituency inside the party. Clinton needed African-Americans voters, but after Obama proved himself capable of winning in Iowa, those voters swung heavily into his column, changing the electoral math of the primaries. There is no corresponding bloc of Latino voters in the Republican Party, other than in a handful of states.
More to the point, though, Rubio isn’t anything like the fluid politician Obama was in 2008. It’s true that both men are essentially cool characters, more comfortable talking about policy than sharing emotions. But where Obama has always exuded preternatural confidence (some call it arrogance) and an informal, self-deprecating style, Rubio telegraphs caution and uncertainty.
...
Actually, if there’s a better analog for Rubio than Obama, it might be John Kerry in 2004. Like Rubio, Kerry was an elusive and insecure candidate, a senator who stepped through every conversation like it was a minefield from his youth in Vietnam.
But Kerry was also the perfect consensus candidate for a riven party — liberal enough to appease supporters of Howard Dean and establishment enough to reassure everyone else. He was both acceptable and electable.
It’s hard to think of any constituency in the Republican Party right now — evangelicals, libertarians, nativists — whose goal in life is to make Rubio our next president, as opposed to Cruz or Carson or Trump. But as I wrote last April, Rubio might still be the candidate who satisfies most of them.

Mr Interweb posted:

Eh...that movie about the dude who bragged about shooting black people during Katrina was also released around this time and made bank. And we also had that new alien movie that came out two weeks ago which is doing pretty well too.

Epic High Five posted:

Will we ever know why these poor, angry white men do this?

Party Plane Jones posted:

Rubio calling for a constitutional convention is right out of the Ron Paul playbook.

Joementum posted:

Somewhat problematic.

Paul MaudDib posted:

Elizabeth Warren is a Bernie supporter!?

Joementum posted:

Do you mean Professor Warren?

SedanChair posted:

American Sniper was a pretty drat blockbuster movie.

Luigi Thirty posted:

Someone said they changed it to wow

Killer robot posted:

It also started limited release in December since they had it in mind as an Oscar candidate to start. December/January is the big divide for whether the producers have big hopes for a movie vs whether they're just dumping it out, even if it's a small release the first few weeks. Is Bayghazi out yet at all, or is it upcoming?

Raere posted:

I am eagerly awaiting Obama's post presidential tell all book. If I can get to a book signing I can meet him too!

I would love to sarcastically mutter 'Thanks Obama' after he signed my book.

Vienna Circlejerk posted:

The supernatural bullshit is optional, but you get to pick your own if you want it. So you have a fair number of atheist UUs, but also pagan UUs, vaguely pan(en)theist UUs like me, a smattering of Christian/Jewish/Islamic UUs, and a bunch of miscellaneous. It also varies heavily by congregation. The one closest to me is very strongly atheist/humanist, which I have nothing against but find a little boring, so I drive a little out of town to the one that has more pagans, deists, lapsed methodists, and cool atheists who are a little more chill about the rest of us having our weird superstitious nonsense.

It's definitely great if you have kids and want to help inoculate them against religious conversion attempts and other nasty bullshit they can run into, plus there's a comprehensive, LGBTQ-positive sexuality curriculum for Sunday school.

/churchchat

Killer robot posted:

It also started limited release in December since they had it in mind as an Oscar candidate to start. December/January is the big divide for whether the producers have big hopes for a movie vs whether they're just dumping it out, even if it's a small release the first few weeks. Is Bayghazi out yet at all, or is it upcoming?

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Another ISIS-inspired plot thwarted.

BlueBlazer posted:

I eagerly await post presidency Obama, I believe there is alot of stuff he can't/won't say and do as president.

gradenko_2000 posted:

President / Chairman of BLM

Luigi Thirty posted:

ohgodwhat posted:

It's cute. Chill out a little.